Temporal changes in blood product usage in preterm neonates born at less than 30 weeks' gestation in Canada

Transfusion

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1340-1346

  Keir, Amy K ^a,b   Yang, Junmin ^c   Harrison, Adele ^d   Pelausa, Ermelinda ^e   Shah, Prakesh S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; CRYOPRECIPITATE COAGULUM; FIBRINOGEN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYOPRECIPITATE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREMATURITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTE; ANEMIA; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG DISEASES; MULTICENTER STUDY; PLASMA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

ANEMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; CANADA; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FACTOR VIII; FIBRINOGEN; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LUNG DISEASES; PLASMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 84930869721     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12998     Document Type: Article

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